Comments on: Ned Yost is taking spring training very seriously

By: cogitobaseballergosum

cogitobaseballergosum — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:18:16 +0000

Billy Martin would be proud. This reminds me of the time he wanted Goose Gossage to bean Billy Sample in a Spring Training game.

George Steinbrenner would love Yost’s attitude. He hated to lose Spring Training games almost as much as World Series games. No wonder he and Martin got along so well.

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:26:35 +0000

I’m more worried that the front office is so enamored with Chris Getz that they just have to find a way to get him in the line-up. Versatility, the new market inefficiency.

By: yahmule

yahmule — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:35:38 +0000

Wayne Fontes’ Lions teams took a much more laid back approach to training camp. So laid back, in fact, they generally had to spend the first month of the regular season playing themselves into shape. Fans and media would begin asking why a team with Barry Sanders, Herman Moore, Chris Spielman and Jerry Ball were struggling and demand Fontes be fired. The Lions would then finish strong and get everybody optimistic for the following season. The players loved Fontes so he got away with this for, like, nine seasons.

By: packer42390

packer42390 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:28:14 +0000

Yost also said that spring training games don’t mean anything in a local radio interview, he probably feels how most fans do. We all know these games don’t mean anything but it is still good to see them stacking wins so why mess with it?

By: yahmule

yahmule — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:16:14 +0000

This is the same guy who was wringing his hands a few years back about how he would explain to Braun and Fielder that they were switching places in the batting order. Edgar Frederick “Ned” Yost III begins the 2013 season an even 100 games under .500 on his career.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/yostne01.shtml

By: uwsptke

uwsptke — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:12:57 +0000

The 2008 Detroit Lions were 4-0 in preseason play before going 0-16 in the regular season. What is Ned rambling about?

By: js20011041

js20011041 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:29:55 +0000

Ned “I Am Sam” Yost just went full retard. How is the idea that wins and losses in spring training don’t mean anything not a given at this point? It’s mind boggling.

By: mattintoledo

mattintoledo — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:48 +0000

The Royals must not have had any starters who were perfect in these 3 IP warmups. Probably a good thing. Yost would’ve been pacing in the dugout, sweating telling a guy with a perfect game he might take him out. “I can’t take him out. Can I? I mean, perfect is perfect, right?”

By: danaking

danaking — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:39 +0000

As Earl Weaver said in Weaver on Strategy: No one gives a damn in July that you lost a game in March.